USA Poll 10/21

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2002

10/21/2002

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (55)	1,519	1
2	Oklahoma (6)	1,465	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,393	3
4	Ohio State	1,319	4
5	Georgia	1,301	5
6	Notre Dame	1,219	7
7	Texas	1,112	8
8	Michigan	1,070	9
9	NC State	1,014	10
10	LSU	945	12
11	Washington State	933	11
12	Oregon	842	6
13	Florida State	799	14
14	Iowa	724	16
15	Tennessee	613	18
16	USC	557	20
17	Penn State	507	21
18	Iowa State	426	13
19	Air Force	373	15
20	Colorado	267	25
21	Kansas State	221	19
22	Bowling Green	218	23
23	Florida	202	24
24	Minnesota	194	NR
25	Arizona State	129	NR

Coaches' Poll
Started in 1950.

More Info

The Coaches' Poll began as a top 20 list in 1950 and was published by United Press International (UPI). In 1990 the poll began listing the top 25 teams.

This poll was published by the UPI until 1991 when USA Today and CNN took it over. ESPN replaced CNN in 1997 as the co-sponsor. After the controversial results in the BCS in 2004, ESPN left and the poll is currently run by USA Today only.

Since the inception of the BCS, the Coaches' Poll must vote the number one team in the BCS poll as number one also. This was supposed to eliminate the possibility of split national titles until the before mentioned 2004 controversy. The winner of the Coaches' Poll is awarded the Waterford Crystal National Championship Coaches' Trophy.